John Andersen wrote:
This just seems wrong on so many levels. That a remote session could even know that there was a local session running is a bit of a worry.
This is called ICC (Inter-Client Communication) in X parlor, the respective manual (ICCCM) is often called the most important, least read and least understood of all X protocol specifications. Just ssh somewhere, with X forwarding, and call xlsclients. It will list all running applications that have a window open on your X server. And every connected application will see every other application that's also connected to that X server and be able to communicate with it. That does not mean that other users on that remote system will see your applications. The applications that *you* call while *you* have a connection to that X server active sees them. (Though the realization is not terribly secure -- root on the remote system can connect, too.) That's how network-transparent copy&paste is implemented, for example. (For proper C&P, apps must be able to communicate to bargain over supported and needed representions and encodings.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org